The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-30
GENERAL ITEMS.


Judge Hilton's Saratoga stud is one of the
finest at that place, containing at this writing
twenty six fleet limbed trotters.
Within the past six weeks, 1,137 children un-
der five years of age have died in Pittsburgh. Oh
these Is per cent. were under two years of age.
Mrs. Cleveland has again taken to swinging
four pound pair of dumb BELLS in order to be in
trim for the hand shaking business of the winter
1t has been discovered that Buffalo Bill eats
green peas with his knife. London society is in
a quandary whether to ostracize him or initiate
him.
In the same pew in church at Des Moines
Ia, sit each Sabbath day two women, one of whom
is the widow of four ministers, and the other the
widow of three ministers.
AT the suggestion of II. H. Carter, superin-
tendent of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad,
library for the employees of that company has
been established at Washington.
business men of Buffalo, N. Y, will raise a
fund of 100000, which will be offered as prize
for the best invention for utilizing the water power
of Niagara, competition being open to the world.
The Germans of Philadelphia are protesting
against the enforcement of the "blue law" there,
which denies them their accustomed beer on Sun
days. They think it as necessary to quench thirst
on Sunday as on other days.
The Courier Journal says the present summer
ought to convince the people of Hades that the
American thermometer may be introduced at once
to their climate. Our thermometers are now suf-
fcenty seasoned for the hottest corner of the
DEVILS kitchen.
General Wolseley holds the post of Adjutant
General of the British army on an annual salary
of $13,500. To Field Marshal Won Motke who
performs the same duties in the Germany army
only $4,000 is paid, and the Adjutant General Of
the French army only gets $4,000.
1t is reported that the largest salary received
by any woman in this country for editorial work
is that paid by the Harper Brothers to Miss Mary
l.. Booth. She is the editor of Harpers Bazaar.
Her salary is said to be $4,000, and she also re-
ceives percentage on the profits of the publoa-
ton.
"A special dispatch to the Chicago Neps from
Earne, Scotland, says: "On Monday Mr.. Blaine
suddenly determined to close his foreign tour and
return at once to America. He finally consented
to make a tour of the Trosachs on Sunday next
with his family, but insisted that after that time
he would take the next convenient steamer home.
He declared that he would start for New York
within two weeks"
1t is said that considerable dissatisfaction of
the Board of Managers of the Chester County (Pa)
Agricultural Society by their resolution to discon-
tinue the premiums for domestic wine exhibits at
their fall fairs. This department has long been
quite an extensive one, the competitors being the
the farmers, their sons wives and daughters of the
county, and the action now declaring this feature
dispensed with has awakened much disapprobation
on the part of the winemakers, who alege that the
order of things is merely to crafty the whims
of women composing the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union of the county.